Evidence Video

What Evidence Video does

Evidence Video is a Chicago-based legal video production company founded in 1988 (with documented operations since 1991) that specializes in creating demonstrative evidence videos for plaintiff-side personal injury law firms. Its core products include Day in the Life Videos (documenting plaintiffs' daily realities for trial), Settlement Documentaries (narrated stories used to enhance mediation outcomes), Progressive Videos (longitudinal injury/recovery documentation), and Living Plaintiff Documentaries (settlement narratives combining footage with family interviews). The company has documented involvement in high-profile cases yielding hundreds of millions of dollars in cumulative settlements and verdicts, with particularly deep ties to aviation litigation including the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash litigation involving 97 consolidated lawsuits and nearly 40 produced videos.

The firm's underlying technology centers on professional video production workflows, international remote coordination via Zoom with multilingual interpretation, and domain-specific expertise in legal evidentiary admissibility standards. The business model is project-based professional services, with quote-based pricing for individual case engagements. Go-to-market relies on direct enterprise sales to personal injury law firms, supplemented by referral relationships, industry conference presence (ITLA Damages Seminar), and earned media including an ABA Journal cover story and CBS 48 Hours interview for CEO Gera-Lind Kolarik.

Evidence Video's customer base is concentrated among a small set of leading plaintiff-side personal injury firms, with a 30-year partnership with Clifford Law Offices serving as the anchor relationship and additional enterprise clients including Power Rogers, Salvi Schostok & Pritchard, Kenneth J. Allen Law Group, Romanucci & Blandin, and Smith Lacien. The company is privately held and independently owned by CEO Gera-Lind Kolarik, with no disclosed external funding, subsidiaries, or parent company. Geographic operations have expanded from a Chicago/Midwest base to international scope including Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Italy, Austria, Yemen, and Hong Kong for multi-jurisdictional litigation support.

Name

Evidence Video

Legal name

Evidence Video

Website

https://evidencevideo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Evidence Video is a Chicago-based legal video production company founded in 1988 that creates Day in the Life Videos, Settlement Documentaries, and Progressive Videos for plaintiff-side personal injury law firms. The firm has produced hundreds of videos supporting hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts over 30+ years.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Video Production Services

NAICS

Court Reporting and Stenotype Services (561492)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro primary industry

Litigation Support & Expert Witness Services (BPAHALAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

True Crime Documentaries (MPADADAN), Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

Keywords

• Legal video production
• Settlement documentaries
• Plaintiff day-in-life videos
• Demonstrative evidence videos
• Personal injury litigation videos

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Legal Video Production Services: Professional video production services for personal injury law firms, including Day in the Life Videos, Settlement Documentaries, and other demonstrative evidence videos used in trials and mediations. Services are project-based for specific legal cases.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Evidence Video produces professional legal video services for plaintiff-side personal injury and wrongful death cases, including Day in the Life Videos that document plaintiffs' daily realities, narrated Settlement Documentaries designed to strengthen mediation outcomes, and additional demonstrative evidence videos that help juries and mediators visualize injury impacts. The company also produces Living Plaintiff Documentaries and Progressive Videos that track injury and recovery timelines, serving U.S. and international litigation matters through direct engagement with law firms.

Product overview

Evidence Video provides legal video production services primarily for law firms pursuing personal injury and wrongful death cases. The core offerings include Day in the Life Videos (documenting plaintiffs' daily realities for trial), Settlement Documentaries (narrated stories for mediation), and Additional Video Services (evidence visualization). Sub-products include Living Plaintiff Documentaries (settlement narratives with interviews) and Progressive Videos (documenting injury/recovery progression over time). The company operates as a service-based production company rather than a software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Day in the Life Videos Dramatic video documentation of a plaintiff's daily life showing jurors how injuries have impacted routine activities, intended for plaintiff-side personal injury law firms to use at trial.
• Settlement Documentaries Impactful, narrated documentaries that tell a client's story compellingly to enhance mediation outcomes for plaintiff-side personal injury law firms.
• Additional Video Services Supplementary legal video services that help mediators or jurors visualize evidence in personal injury cases, extending the firm's core documentary and day-in-the-life offerings.
• Living Plaintiff Documentary Narrative documentary used as an out-of-court settlement tool that combines footage with interviews of family, friends, and colleagues to convey injury impacts on quality of life for plaintiff-side personal injury matters.
• Progressive Video Legal video documenting the progression of a plaintiff's injury and recovery over extended periods, showing the evolution of an injured plaintiff's condition from the incident through treatment and ongoing care for use in personal injury cases.

Quantifiable outcome

• $148 million record settlement for paralyzed dancer at O'Hare Airport
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Suaad Al Salahi (Freelance Producer)minorOthersYemeni freelance producer and award-winning journalist hired to conduct interviews in war-torn Yemen for Ethiopian Airlines crash documentary. Suaad's work has been featured on BBC News, CNN, CBS, 60 Minutes, HBO, and Italian TV.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Magna Legal Services: Magna Legal Services is a large, established end-to-end litigation support provider offering court reporting, record retrieval, trial services, and visual solutions. It is a broad incumbent whose litigation visual services overlap with Evidence Video's offering, though within a much wider service portfolio and at a larger scale.
• U.S. Legal Support: U.S. Legal Support offers court reporting, record retrieval, e-discovery, and trial support services to law firms and corporations nationwide. It is a broad incumbent in the litigation support space whose trial-preparation offerings overlap with parts of Evidence Video's service line.
• Precision Discovery: Precision Discovery provides full-service e-discovery and litigation support including managed document review and trial support. It is a broad incumbent adjacent to Evidence Video's visual evidence work, often engaged by similar law firm clients on large litigation matters.

Direct peers

• DK Global: DK Global provides legal animation, forensic visualization, and demonstrative evidence services for litigation. It is a direct peer, operating in the same visual-evidence-for-trials category as Evidence Video, with comparable technology-driven approaches to making complex facts accessible to juries.
• TrialGraphix: TrialGraphix produces trial graphics, animations, and visual evidence for plaintiff and defense attorneys in high-stakes litigation. It is a direct peer, competing in the same demonstrative-evidence niche Evidence Video serves, with overlapping service offerings around visual storytelling for juries and mediators.

Others

• Veritext Legal Solutions: Veritext is one of the largest court reporting and deposition service providers in the U.S., serving the same plaintiff and defense law firm clients as Evidence Video. While its core focus is deposition/court reporting, it represents an adjacent legal support vendor in the same customer buying center.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/evidencevideo

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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